Sara Dilliplane is a multidisciplinary artist who loves to draw, paint, sculpt, photograph, dance, and sing. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Sara has worked as a textile artist, designer, and art educator. She has exhibited at the United Nations, the Society of Illustrators, the Keeney Museum, and Mystic Seaport. Sara believes in the power of art to bring about change through communication and loves to travel, studying diverse world cultures by drawing and photographing them. Sara is particularly interested in how to visually explain music, and how rhythms and harmonies can be used to illustrate people, places, or situations. When not exploring the globe, she lives in Boston with her husband and a lot of cats.

Whales have been singing for millennia, but only during the last fifty years have we been able to hear and understand them. Since whales and humans share the same type of brain cells responsible for emotional intelligence and social behavior, it's no surprise that whales' complex song use is similar to ours. The perceived gap between us and other species is closing and a shared musical language can be a tool to connect people to the natural world around them.

As an instrument of change, the restored Charles W. Morgan "sings" the transformed melody of a former hunter, calling for a renewed conservation movement:

We are all consequential players in the earth's ecosystem. What we once destroyed we must now protect. Only through cooperation with one another and with other species will we stay afloat.

Will we hear the Morgan's song?

Musical Connector

Like an underwater interspecies internet, sounds link us across time and space. Song opens the channels of communication.

Journey of Transformation.

A former whaling ship, the Morgan makes peace with the whales and shepherds the sea. All aboard to sing with the whales!

Instrument of Change.

The transformed Charles W. Morgan leads us in a song of compassion and renewed conservation commitment.

Studies for Morgan: Instrument of Change sculpture series.

Storyboards from the animation, "In Harmony." Here, the Morgan evolves from conquerer to harmonizer, setting sail with a new tune of friendship.